Kathleen M Quinlan’s full length collection, Moorings (2016) and debut poetry pamphlet, From We to I, *2015) are published by Cinnamon Press. Since 2012, she has placed her poetry in numerous literary magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including Acumen, Ariadne's Thread, ArtemisPoetry, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Comstock Review, Dawntreader, Envoi, French Literary Review, Frogmore Papers, Gargoyle, Gold Dust, New Walk, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prole, Puckerbrush Review, Sarasvati, Saw, the Aurorean, The Interpreter's House, Touch: The Journal of Healing, The Journal, The Wayfarer: A Journal of Contemplative Literature, and Vermont Literary Review.

Competitionsand Anthologies

A book manuscript was a finalist for the 2012-13 Venture Award at Flipped Eye Press and was a runner-up for the 2013 Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. "Witnessing" was shortlisted for Theatre Cloud's War Poetry for Today competition. "Bus Driver" was shortlisted for Theatre Cloud's Loneliness competition in 2016. Her poem, "Fire", was commended in the Cinnamon Press October 2013 mini-competition on heat. "The Dividing Bolster" was commended in the Women's Aid Cardiff 2013 Creative Writing Competition. "I might have left" appeared in the Human Right's Consortium anthology, In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. Poems have also been selected for two successive Cinnamon Press winners' anthologies and for the Second Light Networks 2015 anthology, Fanfare.

Poetry in Social Science

Kathleen has contributed poetry to social science journals including the Journal of Family Social Work, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Journal of Poetry Therapy. She edited , How Higher Education Feels: Commentaries on Poems that Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching (Sense Publishers, 2016). That book uses poetry in an innovative way to enrich discourse about higher education. Details can be found at http://hepoetry.weebly.com/

Kathleen holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maine and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. As Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Kent, she researches teaching, learning and student development in higher education. See her academic profile here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/staff/apt/profiles/Quinlan.html